CATHOLIC NEWSLINK: “[Notre Dame,] Rescind McCarrick’s Honorary Degree” – Sycamore Trust

Basilica of the Sacred Heart and Golden Dome at the University of Notre Dame, with Trees

“Dear Father Jenkins,

We, the undersigned alumni, members of the Notre Dame community, friends of Notre Dame, and concerned Catholics, urge you to rescind the honorary degree the University awarded in 2008 to then Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and to announce the University’s support for a wide-ranging and unconstrained investigation into what McCarrick did, who knew, and what they did or didn’t do about it.

Former Cardinal McCarrick is at the epicenter of the most serious crisis faced by the Catholic Church in the United States in a very long time. He has become the face of clerical sexual abuse in the wake of …”

CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Wednesday of the Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time 10.3.18 – USCCB/NABRE

Historic Bible

“… someone said to Him, ‘I will follow You wherever You go.’ Jesus answered … ‘Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.’ … ‘No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God.'”

CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Memorial of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face 10.1.18 – USCCB/NABRE

Historic Bible

“An argument arose among the Disciples about which of them was the greatest. Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child and placed it by His side and said to them, ‘Whoever receives this child in My Name receives me, and whoever receives Me receives the One Who sent Me. For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.’ …”

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “[PDF] Story of a Soul (l’Histoire d’une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux” – CCEL

File Photo of Sunrise at Joshua Tree National Park

“… It is to you, dear Mother,
that I am about to confide
the story of my soul. When you
asked me to write it, I feared the task might unsettle
me, but since then Our Lord has deigned
to make me understand
that by simple obedience
I shall please Him best. I begin therefore
to sing what must be my eternal
song: “the Mercies
of the Lord.”
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Before setting about my task I knelt before the statue of Our Lady which had given my
family so many proofs of Our Heavenly
Mother’s
loving care.
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As I knelt I begged
of that
dear Mother
to guide my hand, and thus ensure that only what was pleasing
to her should
find place here.
Then opening
the Gospels,
my eyes fell on these words: “Jesus, going up into a mountain,
called unto Him whom He would Himself.”

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “October is Respect Life Month” – USCCB

Cross Atop Rocky Cliff

“Simple Steps … Homily Helps … Intercessions … Respect Life Images … Bulletin Inserts … Poster … Reflection Flyer … Bulletin Cover and Wrapper … Word of Life: October 2018 (Respect Life Month) … Bulletin and Pulpit Announcements …”

CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9.30.18 – USCCB/NABRE

Historic Bible

“… ‘Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in Your Name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.’ Jesus replied, ‘Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in My Name who can at the same time speak ill of Me. For whoever is not against us is for us. * * * Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. …”

CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Friday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time, Memorial of Saint Wenceslaus, Martyr, 9.28.18 – USCCB/NABRE

Historic Bible

“Then He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I AM?’ Peter said in reply, ‘The Christ of God.’ … He said, ‘The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third day be Raised.'”

CATHOLIC MASS READINGS: Wednesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time 9.26.18 – USCCB/NABRV

Historic Bible

“Jesus … gave [the Twelve] Power and Authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and … sent them to Proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick. ‘Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic. … as for those who do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake the dust from your feet in testimony against them.’ … “

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